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2 Chronicles 2:9

2 Chronicles 2:9 is verse 9 of 2 Chronicles chapter 2, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

to prepare for me timber in abundance, because the temple I am building will be great and wonderful.

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King James Version

Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great.

World English Bible

even to prepare timber in abundance for me; for the house which I am about to build will be great and wonderful.

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2 Chronicles 2:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible

7 Send me, therefore, a craftsman skilled in engraving to work with gold and silver, with bronze and iron, and with purple, crimson, and blue yarn. He will work with my craftsmen in Judah and Jerusalem, whom my father David provided.

8 Send me also cedar, cypress, and algum logs from Lebanon, for I know that your servants have skill to cut timber there. And indeed, my servants will work with yours

9 to prepare for me timber in abundance, because the temple I am building will be great and wonderful.

10 I will pay your servants, the woodcutters, 20,000 cors of ground wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 20,000 baths of wine, and 20,000 baths of olive oil.”

11 Then Hiram king of Tyre wrote a letter in reply to Solomon: “Because the LORD loves His people, He has set you over them as king.”

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

2 Chronicles 2:5

The house that I am building will be great, for our God is greater than all gods.

2 Chronicles 7:21

And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’

1 Kings 9:8

And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’

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